try testing with the possible release-candidate
drivers form www.schneider-digital.de for your purposes.
it might be that the fglrxconfig program does fail the
detection of R350 based boards (like the ATI Radeon 9800),
simply ignore any such message and give `startx` a try.
if drivers do reject
Chris Cheney wrote:
I am considering buying a R350 based video card. However, currently
even the official binary only ATI drivers do not support it. I saw
that earlier this year someone asked if ATI had released any
documentation on the R300/R350 chipsets to the DRI developers for 3D